'Atlantic Crossing's Penultimate Episode Is an Ugly "Gift"

After the melodrama of last week’s episode of Atlantic Crossing, the arrest of the eight saboteurs is all over the news. We’d expect tightened security, but no. So when Märtha goes to visit Roosevelt at Springwood, NJ, she sends Ragni to see her good friend Eliza (who we know is a villain) with the children. Didn’t anyone other than Ragni notice her disappearance that night, or question her?

Roosevelt takes Märtha for a drive, chaperoned by the Secret Service as usual, and they disagree about the fate of the saboteurs—he’s for execution, she’s against it. During the conversation, he casually mentions it’s a shame they let Eliza “slip through the cracks,” since she is a well-known Nazi sympathizer and has connections with Norway’s Nazi Prime Minister. And, inexplicably, she's still at large. Worse, she’s entertaining the three children. All three cars roar off to nearby Hyde Park, where they know Eliza lives, and stop off at a public phone to look up her address in the phone book.

(Don’t laugh. It works.)